Your smallest tree?

[Valdes]

Azalea over rock in a hot Mediterranean region. The watering is crazy for that one

[Yugen]

What a timely and interesting post! I have just started to work on tiny bonsai. This is a cherry blossom

[cheezywhiz]

Update after 7 months. I’ve done a couple snips to keep it small. Very healthy and just starting to push branches.

[bernhard]

My smallest that I dare to show myself

[Kenez]

I have a few small ones, but this would be the ficus would be the smallest.
Started a year and a half ago from a cutting.

[Masterzoda]

These are my tiny babies.

[svencux]

my Black pine, two weeks after decandling it.

[svencux]

my little larch… don‘t mind my bird protection fence😀

[svencux]

eleagnus still some way to go.

[Kenez]

Here are some of my smaller ones, just to keep the tread going
All of them are below 20 cm from the pot.

[Casteel]

It’s been neat to see the effects of a confined root structure in a single season. These tiny trees have been a great way to learn while I am growing my (hopefully) more impressive specimen. It’s like a crash course in energy management and helps quantify whats too “wet” or too “dry” hot/cold etc. for a particular species before I have a lot of money, or time invested.

[MdM]

Wow. Great trees pal

[billm]

Pretty small (for a collected Limber Pine.)

[Ruddigger]

I have this lime I’ve been working on.

And this rosemary.

[Morddexx]

Little twin trunk Seiju elm is probably my smallest.

[Sharon_Bone]

Lonicera nitida - favorite of my smallish bonsai. Somehow it looks bigger in the picture.

[Kenez]

Just started this little guy
The pot lenght for reference is 1.5 inches long.

[Casteel]

Are you guys growing the tiny ones on top of another tray or container? I have seen people on the internets letting them root into another container below the pot and cutting those roots back.

[Kenez]

Hey @Casteel,
I only keep the ficus ones on top of a bigger tray, because I keep them year round indoors and humidity is a bit to low for them inside. The rest I treat like any other tree on a bench, besides watering two or three times as much as others.

[Michael_Kempson]

This Ficus Rubiginosa is 12cm.